Solar

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlÉ™(r)

From Late Middle English solar, from Latin sōlāris, from sōl ("sun"), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ ("sun").

Full definition of solar

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence.
2. (astrology, obsolete) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
• Drydenand proud beside, as solar people are
3. Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
4. Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
• Francis BaconThey denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar.
• 2013-07-20, Out of the gloom, solar plant schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

Synonyms

• sunly

Related terms

From Middle English solar, soler; from a conflation of Old English soler, solere ("raised platform; loft, upper room, upper part of a house, soler"), from Latin solarium; and Old English solor, salor ("residence, dwelling; hall; palace"), from Proto-Germanic *salaz, *salÄ… ("house, room, hall"). More at sale.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room.

Anagrams

• orals